When it comes to holiday-appropriate dressing, I can rarely resist a Same Time, Next Year scenario. A vintage Moschino dress with a big heart on it gets worn nearly every Valentine’s Day. Now I seem to have a Bastille Day-in-Paris favorite: the red, white and blue Alexander McQueen that I wore last year. I wore…
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MrB’s London Souvenir: The Last News of the World
As a journalist, he simply had to have a copy of this.
It’s That Time of Year Again: Pimm’s Time!
It’s become my July tradition to go to London and drink Pimm’s for hours with gorgeous local bloggers. It all started in 2008 with Sharon Rose and ex-blogger Times of Glory. In 2009, we expanded to five: Sharon Rose, Samantha, Kate, Liz and me. Last year’s Pimm’s-fest featured Liz, Kate, Margaret, Winnie and Disneyrollergirl. Today’s…
What Wendy Wore: A Week in South Beach
Last week, MrB and I both had business in Miami, so we decided to spend a few extra days in South Beach for relaxation. I hadn’t been there since 2008, and either my memory is failing or the place has totally changed. To the best of my recollection the dress code during my last visit…
What Wendy Wore: The Purple Jacket Takes Los Angeles
I sneaked off to Los Angeles for the weekend: MrB and I both had business to attend to, and family to see. The one drawback was that I was too booked to have one of my L.A. blogger fiestas.A Next time, peeps! As you might guess if you read my post on casual outfits, I…
Souvenir From London
One thing I love about U.K. magazines is that they occasionally give me presents. My keychain is a light-blue heart from Aspinal of London that I got with an issue of Tatler a while back. This month, while in London, I picked up an issue of Elle that came with a Paul & Joe Sister…
A Portrait of the Jeweler as a Tudor Queen
My designing friend Zang Toi has two white-gold paintings of Marie Antoinette that were love at first sight for me. You know how I feel about queens! I once bid on a small, pink version of Marie in an auction but lost. I was very upset. When Zang finally introduced me to the gorgeous artist,…
Sneakers O’Brandes
I haven’t worn sneakers anywhere except the gym (with one hot-air-ballooning exception) for more than 20 years. Even when clambering around castle ruins, I prefer wearing cork wedges. Gym sneakers that look cute with bike shorts on the elliptical machine don’t work with my red lipstick and regular clothes. So I’ve been on the lookout…
What Wendy Wore: Christopher Cross & a Cougar
Remember how I asked you to guess whether or not I got the Jean-Charles de Castelbajac sailor outfit? It was a trick question! I got a navy blue version of the white pants I was wearing in the picture and a different nautical-themed top. So, yes, I got a head-to-toe outfit, but it wasn’t the…
What Wendy Wore: American Bloggers in Paris
One good thing about the French scaring me half to death with their traditional Bastille Day flyover was discovering gorgeous blogger Claire from The Fashion Bomb via Twitter, where she, like me, was bitching about having a 9/11-type fright. Turns out Claire is a Hotlanta-native-turned-New-Yorker who is finishing up a two-year stint in Paris. We…